Rancher Profile

Diamond W Ranch

The Diamond W Ranch can be found on what’s clearly a spectacular 1,900 acres of land between Petaluma and Sebastopol, and not far east of Bodega Bay, in the lush, green hills of Sonoma County, California.

For four generations, the Wilson family has maintained a thriving herd of Holstein dairy cattle, the current generation made up of brothers Ken and Ron Wilson and their families. About five years ago, they started building a herd of mostly Angus beef cattle, an operation that now runs about 200 head annually.

Starting with spring of 2010, the Wilsons and their Diamond W Ranch have begun shipping their cattle Panorama’s way.

The Diamond W is a place where animals can live healthy and unstressed, grazing on native grasslands that grow in profusion on land where the cool fog wafts in daily off the Pacific Ocean. The beef cattle operation runs under a strictly organic, grass-fed regime.

“We’re proud of the fact that our animals aren’t in feedlots,” says Ron Wilson. “All of our beef cattle graze in the open and are never confined.”

The Wilsons are also proud of being on some of America’s choicest grazing land, with some of the nation’s most accomplished ranchers as neighbors. “We’re surrounded by great agriculture and we like being a part of it,” says Ron. “It’s in our family’s heritage.”

Another thing that keeps the Wilsons on their land is a desire to see it remain agricultural, heading off encroachments from the San Francisco Bay Area nearby to their south.

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